Downtown Ogden Industrial copy5_5 in tall
This is the track plan of Downtown Ogden, Utah. From the upper level floor you step down two step into a large "hole" in the layout that this 5 ft by 8 ft model of Downtown Ogden, which is SP territory. The SP operator asks the UP Ogden YM for some cars, and he brings 6 or 8 cars into his small yard, after leaving some he has earlier pulled from the 11 businesses. He takes them back and spots them at his spots as shown on the car cards that came with the cars.
It is kind of a switching puzzle, because you can't run around cars anywhere except in the small 3 track + one track for running around cars. So you have to pull cars from nearly all the spots, and pull them all the way to the yard, then "escape" the yard back to Downtown. The reverse is true for most of Downtown; you have to push most cars to their spots. A devilish modification to the job would be to number the doors on the multi-door businesses A - K, so a lot of cars would have to be moved onto spots on the other side of existing cars on already on spots.
Upload Date: Nov 22, 2022 10:32 AM•Views: 31
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22 Descriptive Photos 50
This is Linda, "Queen of Downtown Ogden," who used to operate every monthly session in the downtown Ogden "hole." The track plan for downtown Ogden showing its 14 sets of spots was shown on the previous slide. The bench height for downtown Ogden is the same as for the other lower level benches.
This is also a good shot of Wycon Chemical just a few miles southwest of Cheyenne. Its tracks are not accessible to be reached by hand, but from the hole I can see the car numbers to forward them for the next session by adding a new destination to their car cards .
I carry a miniature telescope in my operation "nail" apron to read car numbers further away than a few feet, like some of these. It is easier to pull out my tiny scope (see next image) than to step up the two steps onto the upper level deck. That entrance is directly behind Linda.
If I ever work Downtown Ogden again, I would use my little scope at times rather than stepping up onto the upper deck to find cars-the car card racks are inside the "hole."
Capture Date: Nov 15, 2014 10:54 AM•Views: 33
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Carson 6x18 Scope
This is the tiny scope I use when operating or remarking car cards before an operating session. It is less than 1 inch in diameter and about 2 to 4 inches long depending on what distance it is focused on.
It is useful at Downtown Ogden, Ogden (on the lower level--Bench width just over 4 feet), Ideal Cement in Echo (8 cars on spots plus 2 or 3 at the bagging warehouse--readable only from the upper level, which requires a walk around 3/4 of the layout up on the upper level), and Cheyenne for cars out on the center of that 84" wide bench.
It's a big layout!
Upload Date: Nov 23, 2022 11:11 AM•Views: 26
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Echo and Echo Flipped on one sheet
The two fascia maps for Echo and Park City. Park City is on hidden track, the bottom track that leaves Echo on the bottom of the top map. That track leaves the right hand end of the Echo yard (Top Map), and descends down to the lowest level.
The only work to be done in Park City is to pull a string of cars to Park City, leave them, and return with the cars that are waiting on the Park City yard for the return to Echo and beyond. "Beyond" is either Ogden or staging from the Ogden end (which is the off layout locations of San Francisco or LA from that end of staging).
At Park City the arriving train leaves the cars it brought on the empty track. After uncoupling, the engine proceeds to the manual turntable which the engine is turned for the return to Echo. On the way out of Echo the operator runs around the waiting cars and backs to the end of those cars, and after coupling to them, he pulls forward then backs the short (5 or 6 cars) train back to the other track and retrieves the caboose he came with for the trip back to Echo.
Once in Echo, those cars are sorted for further E or W destinations, either E towards Cheyenne, or west to Ogden and points west.
The mirror reversed map on the bottom is on the fascia of the next aisle where the operator, now in Echo, is facing the other direction. See the two blue arrows labeled "Operator View.
Upload Date: Nov 22, 2022 11:16 AM•Views: 27
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Sample Markup Sheet CONDENSED
A sample markup sheet for jobs on the layout. This is how to RSVP and save a job all in one step by you.
1. Verryl sends out an INVITATION through the email group "[email protected]" 10 days - to 2 weeks before the session (which is usually the 2nd Sat of each month unless that is too close to Mother's, Father's or other holidays.
2. YOU go to the LINK in the invitation for this Google Sheet. Google has seen to it that nearly everyone has access--if you don't join the email Group.io and read how.
3. You type your name over one of the "Add one name here" AND HIT THE [RETURN] KEY TO SAVE YOUR NAME
TO THE SHEET.
That's all there is to it! It is a first come-first served deal, so markup early.
All jobs except 2 3, 4, and 5 take less than 2 -4 hours, as noted, so you can work another job 6 - 17 or 1 when you are done with the one you signed up for.
Email me at [email protected] to get on the Groups.io list, or for help/questions about Google Sheets--It is really harmless if you sign up as a personal user--as a business I'll bet you'll get a lot of emails offering ads etc. None of us have found it intrusive--most of us got on right away--we did not even know we were registered with Google.
Upload Date: Nov 25, 2022 10:09 AM•Views: 25
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